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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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Loneliness and isolation usually accompanied a diagnosis of tuberculosis for Indian and Inuit people, who were forced to spend their recovery times in sanatoriums hundreds of miles from home.
Before effective antibiotic treatments came into use in the 1960s, that stay could last years, and Indigenous peoples were usually surrounded by a strange environment and people who…
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Loneliness and isolation usually accompanied a diagnosis of tuberculosis for Indian and Inuit people, who were forced to spend their recovery times in sanatoriums hundreds of miles from home.
Before effective antibiotic treatments came into use in the 1960s, that stay could last years, and Indigenous peoples were usually surrounded by a strange environment and people who…
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Canada should recognize hunting rights of three northern Saskatchewan Native bands, the Indian Claims Commissions reported late last month.
The commission ruled the Athabasca Denesuline Nation near Fond du Lac, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake have the right to hunt, fish and trap throughout their traditional territories.
And Ottawa is obliged to "recognize and protect…
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Canada should recognize hunting rights of three northern Saskatchewan Native bands, the Indian Claims Commissions reported late last month.
The commission ruled the Athabasca Denesuline Nation near Fond du Lac, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake have the right to hunt, fish and trap throughout their traditional territories.
And Ottawa is obliged to "recognize and protect…
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Canada should recognize hunting rights of three northern Saskatchewan Native bands, the Indian Claims Commissions reported late last month.
The commission ruled the Athabasca Denesuline Nation near Fond du Lac, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake have the right to hunt, fish and trap throughout their traditional territories.
And Ottawa is obliged to "recognize and protect…
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Canada should recognize hunting rights of three northern Saskatchewan Native bands, the Indian Claims Commissions reported late last month.
The commission ruled the Athabasca Denesuline Nation near Fond du Lac, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake have the right to hunt, fish and trap throughout their traditional territories.
And Ottawa is obliged to "recognize and protect…
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REVIEW
If you can visualize the Wild West as an Indian medicine show, Silent Tongue is the movie to see.
The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Show is a travelling stage that features society's outcasts. The show travels across the prairie and the performers are musicians, black child dancers, midgets, a wild woman, the paralyzed man with very long curly nails, Velada, an…
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REVIEW
If you can visualize the Wild West as an Indian medicine show, Silent Tongue is the movie to see.
The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Show is a travelling stage that features society's outcasts. The show travels across the prairie and the performers are musicians, black child dancers, midgets, a wild woman, the paralyzed man with very long curly nails, Velada, an…
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REVIEW
If you can visualize the Wild West as an Indian medicine show, Silent Tongue is the movie to see.
The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Show is a travelling stage that features society's outcasts. The show travels across the prairie and the performers are musicians, black child dancers, midgets, a wild woman, the paralyzed man with very long curly nails, Velada, an…
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REVIEW
If you can visualize the Wild West as an Indian medicine show, Silent Tongue is the movie to see.
The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Show is a travelling stage that features society's outcasts. The show travels across the prairie and the performers are musicians, black child dancers, midgets, a wild woman, the paralyzed man with very long curly nails, Velada, an…
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Angelique Levac never guessed she would meet her destiny thumbing through a small, dog-eared northern publication while waiting in a post office near Prince George, B.C.
But tucked among the back pages was an article about one of the last birch bark biters in North America, Angelique Merasty. Although no relation, Levac's maiden name is Merasty. Intrigued by the…
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Angelique Levac never guessed she would meet her destiny thumbing through a small, dog-eared northern publication while waiting in a post office near Prince George, B.C.
But tucked among the back pages was an article about one of the last birch bark biters in North America, Angelique Merasty. Although no relation, Levac's maiden name is Merasty. Intrigued by the…
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Angelique Levac never guessed she would meet her destiny thumbing through a small, dog-eared northern publication while waiting in a post office near Prince George, B.C.
But tucked among the back pages was an article about one of the last birch bark biters in North America, Angelique Merasty. Although no relation, Levac's maiden name is Merasty. Intrigued by the…
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Angelique Levac never guessed she would meet her destiny thumbing through a small, dog-eared northern publication while waiting in a post office near Prince George, B.C.
But tucked among the back pages was an article about one of the last birch bark biters in North America, Angelique Merasty. Although no relation, Levac's maiden name is Merasty. Intrigued by the…
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Dan Paul, executive director of the Conferdacy of Mainland Micmacs, said he suspects Micmacs will work out a lot of problems with the new Liberal government in Nova Scotia.
The relationship betweee Micmacs and the new Liberal govenment "is on a very good keel at this point in time," Paul said at a recent book launch for We Were Not the Savages, his account of the history…